English > mosquito: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals. |
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| Member of | Culicidae, family Culicidae | mosquitoes |
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| Narrower | Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus | striped native of Japan thriving in southwestern and midwestern United States and spreading to the Caribbean |
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| Culex quinquefasciatus, Culex fatigans | widespread tropical mosquito that transmits filarial worms |
| anopheline | Any mosquito of the genus Anopheles |
| common mosquito, Culex pipiens | Common house mosquito |
| gnat | (British usage) mosquito |
| malarial mosquito, malaria mosquito | transmits the malaria parasite |
| yellow-fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti | mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue |
| Broader | dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
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| Spanish | mosco, mosquito, plaga, zancudo |
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| Catalan | mosquit |
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